Soviet armed forces

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armed forces military organization

The Soviet armed forces were the military organization of the Soviet Union, encompassing its army, navy, air force, and strategic missile forces as one of the world’s largest and most powerful militaries during the 20th century.

Aliases (15)

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	armed forces → military organization →
alliance	Warsaw Pact →
alsoKnownAs	Armed Forces of the USSR → Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics → Soviet military →
commanderTitle	Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union → Supreme Commander-in-Chief →
conflict	Cold War → Great Patriotic War → Hungarian Revolution of 1956 → Korean War → Polish–Soviet War → Prague Spring → Russian Civil War → Soviet–Afghan War → Winter War → World War II →
country	Soviet Union →
doctrine	deep operation → nuclear deterrence →
endTime	1991-12-31 →
era	20th century →
followedBy	Armed Forces of Belarus → Armed Forces of Kazakhstan → Armed Forces of Ukraine → Armed Forces of the Russian Federation →
hasPart	Internal Troops of the Soviet Union → Soviet Air Defense Forces → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet Army → Soviet Border Troops → Soviet Navy → Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces →
headquarters	Moscow →
ideology	Marxism–Leninism →
language	Russian →
militaryBranch	air forces → ground forces → naval forces → strategic missile forces →
nativeName	Вооружённые Си́лы Сою́за Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик →
notableCommander	Dmitry Ustinov → Georgy Zhukov → Joseph Stalin → Nikolai Bulganin → Sergei Akhromeyev →
notableEvent	Battle of Kursk → Battle of Stalingrad → capture of Berlin in 1945 →
nuclearWeaponsProgram	Soviet nuclear weapons program →
opposedTo	North Atlantic Treaty Organization → United States Armed Forces →
partOf	Soviet state apparatus →
peakPersonnelStrength	approximately 5,000,000 →
politicalAlignment	Warsaw Pact →
precededBy	Imperial Russian Army → Imperial Russian Navy →
serviceType	conscription → professional soldiers →
shortName	ВС СССР →
startTime	1918-01-28 →
status	defunct →
subordinateTo	Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union → Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union → Soviet government → Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →

Referenced by (94)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
6th Army (Red Army) ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Anton Lopatin ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Leningrad Front (Soviet Union) ("Soviet Armed Forces") → RKKA ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") → Red Army ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Soviet Air Defense Forces ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Soviet Air Forces ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") → Soviet Border Troops ("Armed forces of the Soviet Union (in wartime planning)") → Soviet Ground Forces ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Soviet High Command ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Soviet Navy ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") → Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Soviet military officers ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") → Stavka ("Soviet Armed Forces") → VVS ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") →	partOf
21st Army (Red Army) ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Brocken ("Soviet military") → Medal for the Defence of Moscow ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Mosin–Nagant rifle ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Order of Victory ("Soviet Armed Forces") → R-11 ("Soviet Armed Forces") → R-17 ("Soviet Armed Forces") → R-300 Elbrus ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	usedBy
Andrei Zelentsov ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Gagarin Air Force Academy ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Ivan Susloparov ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Kuznetsov Naval Academy ("armed forces of the Soviet Union") → Stanisław Popławski ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	affiliation
Marshal of the Soviet Union ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Order of Alexander Nevsky ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") → Order of Kutuzov ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Order of Suvorov ("Armed Forces of the USSR") → Sergei Akhromeyev ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	militaryBranch
Boris Gromov ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Dmitry Yazov ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Nikolai Bulganin ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Semyon Timoshenko ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	employer
Soviet armed forces ("Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Soviet armed forces ("Armed Forces of the USSR") → Soviet armed forces ("Soviet military") →	alsoKnownAs
Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Frunze Military Academy ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Voroshilov General Staff Academy ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") →	operatedBy
Medal for Courage ("Armed Forces of the Soviet Union") → Medal for the Defence of Moscow ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	presentedBy
Medal for the Defence of Leningrad ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Order of Glory ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	awardingAuthority
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Order of the Red Star ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	awardingBody
Panjsher offensives ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Sino–Soviet border conflict ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	belligerent
5th Army (Red Army) ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Long-Range Aviation ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	commandStructure
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR ("Armed Forces of the USSR") → People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR ("armed forces of the RSFSR") →	jurisdiction
Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) ("Soviet Armed Forces") → Dmitry Yazov ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	serviceBranch
Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	appliesTo
Marshal of the Soviet Union ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Władysław Korczyc ("Soviet military establishment") →	associatedWith
President of the Soviet Union ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	authorityOver
Peenemünde Army Research Center ("Soviet forces") →	capturedBy
Operation Whirlwind ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	commandedBy
President of the Soviet Union ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	commanderInChiefOf
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein ("Soviet forces") →	damagedBy
Hall of Military Glory ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	dedicatedTo
Reich Chancellery ("Soviet forces") →	destroyedBy
Sambo ("Soviet military") →	developedFor
Soviet Civil Administration in Korea ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	establishedBy
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	exOfficioControls
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR ("Armed Forces of the USSR") →	hasAuthorityOver
October Crisis ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	hasParticipant
Russian Armed Forces ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	isSuccessorOf
Soviet space program ("Soviet military") →	managedBy
Nikolai Ogarkov ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	memberOf
Soviet Ground Forces ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	militaryBranchOf
Soviet government ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	militaryForce
Soviet armed forces ("Вооружённые Си́лы Сою́за Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик") →	nativeName
R-1 rocket ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	operator
Ahmad Shah Massoud ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	opponent
Operation Anadyr ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	organizedBy
Georgian Armed Forces ("Soviet Armed Forces units in Georgian SSR") →	originatedFrom
Ukrainian Armed Forces ("Soviet Armed Forces in the Ukrainian SSR") →	precededBy
T-34 medium tank ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	primaryUser
Red Army ("Soviet Army") →	reorganizedAs
Ministry of Defense of the USSR ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	responsibleFor
Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	roleIn
Soviet Navy ("Soviet Armed Forces") →	serviceBranchOf
Soviet armed forces ("ВС СССР") →	shortName
NII-88 ("Soviet military") →	supervisingAgency
9th Army ("Soviet forces") →	surrenderedTo
Berezan Island ("Soviet military") →	wasUsedBy